Sneak Peak - Daily Mail Christmas Styling Feature

We were delighted to be invited to contribute to Charlotte Kemp's article in the Daily Mail article "All I Want For Christmas."

Charlotte asked us to come along and transform her farmhouse table into a show stopping festive feast of pretty.

We dressed the table with everything from sumptuous linens and stylish centrepieces to pretty chair dressings and table crackers.

We shall post a full report on our table design along with our own tips on how you can make the most of your Christmas table.

Read the feature in full in today's Femail section of the Daily Mail (Dec 7 2011) or see the article on their website Daily Mail - All I want for Christmas feature .

For further details of our event design and styling services, please see our website Classic Events

Classic Events Christmas Table Dressing

May the 4th be with you

Of course I know he's my son when he plans his birthday party around a date. No not his actual birthday, not the nearest Saturday, but a full two and half weeks after his forthcoming birthday, my son decides is the date for the party. May 4th. Nothing special about that until he announces he has chosen this date and wants me to design his invitations to say "May the 4th be with you" This of course will be a Star Wars themed party and I celebrate that at the grand age of seven my protege is born.

Stars Wars Theme Party

This involved costumes, lighting, games and food all apropriately themed to delight the discerning rising 7's of Kent. Master of ceremonies Obe Wan Kenobe tutored the young Jedi Padawan with lightsaber practice. In these modern days 30 little ones welding weapons would send many a parent hot footing it for the health and safety manual, so I found myself spray painting foam pipe insulation which turned out to be the perfect prop when teamed with balloons for playing Remote (I will not explain further, but suffice to say ask any focused Padawan and they will explain)

I also turned my hand to making a suitable birthday cake (Oh why do I put myself through this when my little black book has many talented cake makers numbers listed). Again for simplicity the lightsaber was my saviour and although to a professional, my effort is rather maladroit, as a mother I was happy with my work.

Star Wars Light Saber Birthday Cake

With a seemingly endless supply of Star Wars themed party goods it was easy to accessorise and some brown curtain lining with sash cord provided inexpensive jedi robes for the children.

My darling son has already advised me his next theme will be Dr Who..........

I shall finish with a big thank you to Emma & Lily at Say It With Chocoalte for their help with our thank you's. With a moments notice they whipped together some fabulous chocolate bars to say thank you to our friends & and; family. Great work ladies.

Spring into Summer

 

April & May positively flew by with weddings and parties galore which saw us at Cooling Castle Barns (twice), Rowhill Grange, The Hilton at the Dartford Crossing, Great Fosters, Sevenoaks Holiday Inn, the Marriott Bexleyheath, Dorton House (three times) the Tudor Marriott in Maidstone and Sundridge Park. Burgundy was certainly the colour of the month with it making an appearance five times, with various shades of pink & green following a closely behind.

We were also delighted to style a wonderful Breakfast at Tiffany's themed surprise 40th birthday party, a Christening and garden party for beautiful twin girls as well as my most irrefutable client's (my son) 7th   birthday party, but more of that to come.

We were also honoured to be invited to the annual service of thanks for service to the community by the Lord Lieutenant of Kent
http://www.lord-lieutenant-kent.info/civicservice2010.html .
We try to work hard within our community and for local charities so an acknowledgement for our time and efforts is much apreciated.

 

Of course much of the talk and worries were due to the ash cloud stopping air travel in and out of the UK. Guests had to cancel at short notice and one of our brides had a stranded bridesmaid that was unable to make the day. With stranded guests, postponed honeymoons and a stag weekend hastily relocated from Prague to Dublin we were called upon a few times to help with last minute changes of plan. Usually reserved for corporate events, a projector, screen & dvd player at two of our weddings allowed a for few good will messages from guests that could not make the day.

Don't Forget to Breathe

Well I can hardly believe that almost two months have passed since my last post, that this almost feels like one of those end of year catch up letters. So much has been happening, I don't know where to begin! It's good we have had a busy summer, there has hardly been time to breathe. We have been very lucky to work on some wonderful and beautiful weddings. From an intimate barn wedding for 45, to a grand country mansion affair for 165. All the weddings were punctuated by a charity ball for CHASE children's charity http://www.chasecare.org.uk/ held at beautiful Preston Cross Hotel in Bookham, Surrey. We were delighted to dress the venue featuring the CHASE colour pink. Music was provided by Five Star Swing and a charity auction included an autographed suit donated by Jonathon Ross. The event was a great success and raised £3,000 for the charity. The wedding fair season is upon us and we are exhibiting at shows in Kent at the Maidstone Hilton on Sunday September 20th, 2009 and the Dartford Hilton on September 27th, 2009. If you are in the area why not pop by and say hello.